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then let us begin. wikipedia describes your office in the white house as the front door through which everyone can participate and inform the president. we want to understand your job and how you came to know the obama's and i'll take a line from the movie office space. you'll recognize this. what was a would you say you do here valerie? >> i don't have a stapler. so what do i do? fair question. a variety of different things. my title describe as few things. i head the office of public engagement. that is really the front door of the white house where every possible constituency group can interface with the white house. president obama's entire campaign was based on inclusion and working with the american people and giving them a venue to have an on-going dialogue to serve that purpose. it's headed by tina chen. i have to find out if she's twittering. i was probably one of the people that sent an e-mail. exactly. trying stack the deck he. office of public engagement. we've had over 3300 different groups
then let us begin. wikipedia describes your office in the white house as the front door through which everyone can participate and inform the president. we want to understand your job and how you came to know the obama's and i'll take a line from the movie office space. you'll recognize this. what was a would you say you do here valerie? >> i don't have a stapler. so what do i do? fair question. a variety of different things. my title describe as few things. i head the office of public...
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making us feel loved, and making us believe in ourselves. she spent quality time with each of the grandchildren building sandcastles looking for leprechauns or mermaids she did not choose between being strong or soft more complex or simple. as the story goes out this week i believe she will become a new torchbearer for berman of our time sending a new message as i said you do not have to be a certain way that you can have a full complete spiritual life that is about others and family it teaches us that women are complex and can live out every single aspect of that complexity. in closing in the last few years of her life i found hurt to be more on inspiring bid in her 85 years. she who never sat still was forced to confront stillness and it was hard for her. but she never complained and she never asked for pity. she thought and she fought write-up until the last breath. we all learned so much from her by listening to a per, watching her. and this past year i learned from her as well as she saw fined she gave me permission to do the same as sh
making us feel loved, and making us believe in ourselves. she spent quality time with each of the grandchildren building sandcastles looking for leprechauns or mermaids she did not choose between being strong or soft more complex or simple. as the story goes out this week i believe she will become a new torchbearer for berman of our time sending a new message as i said you do not have to be a certain way that you can have a full complete spiritual life that is about others and family it teaches...
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tell us exactly what he wants. then he can go to the wall with his public approval, his support in congress and push forward on that plan, make it it clear what's in it and what is not in it and then get into the negotiations with the house and the senate. >> host: is it too late, when has the train left the station? >> guest: well, you are letting the opponents of healthcare, of of the obama plan if there is one, concrete in form. you are letting the opponents define what it it is and they are very good at it it. just as democrats are very good at painting republicans into a corner, the republicans, conservatives are very good at painting the president into a corner. so what's happening is that they're punching at every possibility, every possible component of the plan and the president has yet to say, this is what i favor and here is the bill that i favor. he's letting these bills move through congress. they got this in them and that in them. you had a caller earlier who said he's read the entire bill. good for h
tell us exactly what he wants. then he can go to the wall with his public approval, his support in congress and push forward on that plan, make it it clear what's in it and what is not in it and then get into the negotiations with the house and the senate. >> host: is it too late, when has the train left the station? >> guest: well, you are letting the opponents of healthcare, of of the obama plan if there is one, concrete in form. you are letting the opponents define what it it is...
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to all of us. -- were a gift to all of us. the last months of his life or in many ways the sweetest of the seasons because he get to see how much we all love him, respect him, and how unbelievably grateful we are for a stunning years of service and friendship. and what a year he had, my friends. he accomplished more in that span of time than many senators do in a lifetime. mental-health parity, the tobacco act, health care bill out of his committee. he spoke at the democratic convention. he wrote his memoirs. and he was there for the signing of the edward m. kennedy service america act and receive the medal of freedom from the president and a knighthood from the queen of england. i think many of you who were there would agree with me that perhaps one of the most poignant moments of all was when he was awarded an honorary degree from harvard. his staff through the years was gathered in the front, and friends and family and admirers were scattered throughout the audience and filled the room, and vice
to all of us. -- were a gift to all of us. the last months of his life or in many ways the sweetest of the seasons because he get to see how much we all love him, respect him, and how unbelievably grateful we are for a stunning years of service and friendship. and what a year he had, my friends. he accomplished more in that span of time than many senators do in a lifetime. mental-health parity, the tobacco act, health care bill out of his committee. he spoke at the democratic convention. he...
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him with us. he is r.j. harris. please welcome him. [applause] >> good evening. how're you tonight? hello from whb 580. one of the highest-rated stations in the country. [applause] i am r.j. harris and i am running for office of president of the united states of america. that is what i get. i heard some laughing there. i get that because my job as the morning host is to make people happy in the morning so usually, i am talking about hillary's with this new blue pants suit, larger than they had been or bill clinton gallivanting off to las vegas without hillary to celebrate his birthday. or even perhaps, the fact that we hear that president bush went soft on dick cheney which brought to mind that instead of waterboarding, the president wanted to give the people at guantanamo sponge baths. i get laughter when talking about running for the presidency because people are used to meet being a goofball. in 2007 i listed the five points i felt were the most important to straighten out the u.s. of -- united
him with us. he is r.j. harris. please welcome him. [applause] >> good evening. how're you tonight? hello from whb 580. one of the highest-rated stations in the country. [applause] i am r.j. harris and i am running for office of president of the united states of america. that is what i get. i heard some laughing there. i get that because my job as the morning host is to make people happy in the morning so usually, i am talking about hillary's with this new blue pants suit, larger than...
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iraq is good for us. it is a good terrain for us. the crazies running across the border, but turning iraq into the may actions that is good for america. afghanistan is not such a good battlefield for us. why was it his pledge to pull out of iraq and move into afghanistan? it does not make any sense from a military standpoint, but it does make sense if -- i have to please these crazies in my base your insisting we pull out of iraq and that kind of forgot about afghanistan. i know we have to fight the war someplace. i do not think it is the best strategy to move from a country that is good for us militarily to a country that is not. god bless the troops, they will do a great job i'm sure. why not give them the better battlefield. it is political correctness dictating. like johnson going to war in vietnam because he didn't want democrats to be seen as weak on national security, that is not a good reason to fight a war. [applause] >> i am from the university of central florida in orlando. i was waiting for my plane and reading your book,
iraq is good for us. it is a good terrain for us. the crazies running across the border, but turning iraq into the may actions that is good for america. afghanistan is not such a good battlefield for us. why was it his pledge to pull out of iraq and move into afghanistan? it does not make any sense from a military standpoint, but it does make sense if -- i have to please these crazies in my base your insisting we pull out of iraq and that kind of forgot about afghanistan. i know we have to...
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these are being used for buying buses. my county, we didn't get a lot of money but we are ordering buses that we would have been ordering. they are employing people. the fact that they have a long-term payoff is a good thing. my overall argument on the stimulus is consistent with what you are hearing on the other side of the dias which is i already for counter-cyclical revenue sharing that is indexed to the economy so it is a permit so when the economy goes up, it goes away. i think that is the right way to do it from an economic standpoint but it is true that the country has a huge deficit in infrastructure investment. in the short run, the most importuning to do is end the recession and get the economy back to potential ddp. that is what will close the gap in the short run. in the long run it is the productivity of the economy and i would argue our economy has suffered because most of the thing we have been rolling up deficits in the past eight years that we have not been worried about is not invested in our economy and
these are being used for buying buses. my county, we didn't get a lot of money but we are ordering buses that we would have been ordering. they are employing people. the fact that they have a long-term payoff is a good thing. my overall argument on the stimulus is consistent with what you are hearing on the other side of the dias which is i already for counter-cyclical revenue sharing that is indexed to the economy so it is a permit so when the economy goes up, it goes away. i think that is the...
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we used to have -- we use to talk constantly on the phone. and we had breakfast at the hay adams every other saturday. and the odd saturdays he didn't talk to me; he talked to build a writer who was a left-wing journalist. and he wrote an article for the atlantic monthly, according david stockman on the record just attacking the reagan administration. i sit in the bucket was a little like in the middle of the the russian revolution, stalin had turned against marxism. and a was an incredible stat in the back for reagan, who didn't fire stockman. he couldn't believe it. he believes stockman hadn't intended to do it, and he kept him on. he was a destructive force for the rest of his time there in the white house. c-span: why do you think he would have written in this book that he had the meetings with you, when they didn't have an? i mean, i remember the -- >> guest: i don't know. i guess he's a lawyer. because for example he said he had lunch with me at jack kemp when he decided to make and budget director. and the three of us never had lunch.
we used to have -- we use to talk constantly on the phone. and we had breakfast at the hay adams every other saturday. and the odd saturdays he didn't talk to me; he talked to build a writer who was a left-wing journalist. and he wrote an article for the atlantic monthly, according david stockman on the record just attacking the reagan administration. i sit in the bucket was a little like in the middle of the the russian revolution, stalin had turned against marxism. and a was an incredible...
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let me use the example i used to use. we tried a lot with china. china is a huge investor putting it remember how hillary was talking about this that they owned so much? my view is if they have a lot of investments it will make them think twice about bombing loss. if we have a huge into could stake through economics my view is this will make them much less likely to do politically disruptive defense and plus the whole history of embargoes and independence has been fraught with failure. the only thing that is clear every time you use protectionism is that you suffered enormously. protectionism hurts the protector as well as the country against which they are protecting and that is what is happening and i think you will find almost all of the literature and economics to support exactly what i'm describing here. it is a failure tool, protectionism and not only a field tool it hurts the political process. it doesn't make north korea like a spider or cuba like us better or zimbabwe work better. rbrbrbrb@ úrbrb@ @ @ @ rbrb>s@ b nuclear power because it
let me use the example i used to use. we tried a lot with china. china is a huge investor putting it remember how hillary was talking about this that they owned so much? my view is if they have a lot of investments it will make them think twice about bombing loss. if we have a huge into could stake through economics my view is this will make them much less likely to do politically disruptive defense and plus the whole history of embargoes and independence has been fraught with failure. the only...
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us. if you have an idea and vision and our relentless you can probably get it accomplished to some degree so that is a very important lesson that she gave all of us. i think the other thing people always talk about mommy in some ways like to start this camp and it was special olympics, but life think it misses some of the plate that she is a political operative. she is a political strategist. she works both parties better than anybody i've ever seen. and i don't think -- i think teddy could probably speak to this better i don't think you would have had any of the legislation that you have of americans for disability without her relentless work leading up to that and she works as a anybody can say. you see her down on the hill today. she's been going down to the hill for 50 years and working both sides of the bill, and i think that she was -- she always looked at it and what she wanted to get and she always figured out who she needed to talk to to get what she wanted and she didn't care wh
us. if you have an idea and vision and our relentless you can probably get it accomplished to some degree so that is a very important lesson that she gave all of us. i think the other thing people always talk about mommy in some ways like to start this camp and it was special olympics, but life think it misses some of the plate that she is a political operative. she is a political strategist. she works both parties better than anybody i've ever seen. and i don't think -- i think teddy could...